Non-invasive measuring techniques for determining biological parameters are more heavily researched with the growth of the biomedical industry. One of the top areas in non-invasive research deals with diabetes. This ...

Hollow-core negative curvature fibers have drawn lots of attention due to their attractive properties, including a low transmission loss, a wide transmission bandwidth, low power ratio in the glass, and a simple structure. ...

Proton Computed Tomography (also known as pCT) is an emerging medical imaging method. The three dimensional images reconstructed from pCT scans provide information about the Relative Stopping Power of the object scanned. ...

Due to the increased demand on the spectrum, radars are in increased stress to participate in dynamic spectrum allocation. Therefore, the next generation radar will be an adaptable cognitive radar. This type of radar will ...

Monitoring human body activities has long been of interests because of their important applications in human–computer interfacing, virtual control, computer gaming, and medical care industries etc. Traditional methods, ...

Wearable electronics are continually being developed for a multitude of applications like remote health monitoring, personal activity tracking, and gaming. To design efficient wireless communication between multiple on-body ...

The focus of this work is measuring and classifying human motion in foliaged environments. A baseline study is performed using a vector network analyzer in open-space and foliaged environments for a variety of frequencies, ...

The Field Programmable Gate Array's (FPGA) constant growth in computing power has given embedded system developers a choice to replace their current processors with a FPGA. However, most systems continue to use the original ...

With the current state of legacy military avionic systems reaching its ceiling in memory space, processing power, and data-bus through-put (bandwidth), a need has arisen to maximize its limited resources to avoid extensive ...

This thesis demonstrates a power conditioning system (PCS) for grid-connected
hybrid direct fuel-cell with turbine (DFC/T) power plant. The PCS is an interface
between distributed generation and utility grid. It regulates ...

The problem facing the United Sates electric power industry today can be attributed to society’s ever increasing demand for energy, environmental concerns with reliance on fossil fuels, and uncertainty about an aging ...

This thesis presents the model of a power conditioning system (PCS) for the
hybrid direct fuel-cell with turbine (DFC/T) power plant. It regulates voltage, current and
power transmitted from the hybrid DFC/T power plant ...

Diabetes is a disease that afflicts millions worldwide. To control the effects of this disease, diabetics must check their blood glucose levels on a regular basis. Currently, all daily glucose monitoring techniques are ...

This thesis presents design, analysis and simulation of a new current control
scheme for wind power generation system (WPGS). Proportional plus resonance (PR)
controller is proposed to improve the accuracy of the control ...

A new method for the determination of complex permittivity values is explained. The Waveguide-Cutoff method consists of a rectangular chamber with loop antennas for excitation from a Vector Network Analyzer. It then ...

One challenge faced by the engineering discipline in the near future is increased
electric power demand coupled with greater efficiency requirements for power generation
stations. Development of more robust control ...

As the demand for electric power grows and regulations on power plant operation become stricter, the size, and therefore complexity, of new power plant units is increasing while the intricacies of the multiple simultaneous ...

One of the most interesting applications of a new field of mathematics called dynamic equations on time scales is the modeling, analysis and design of distributed control networks. This thesis documents the development ...

The allocation of resources between tasks within a swarm of agents can be difficult without a centralized controller. This problem is prevalent when designing a swarm of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, in which underwater ...